-—u-f,_.._... u __..———"

so for tho Ilaiso law already prossnsd t.t:'llls‘l_-Iogx

‘ 5 flfifl poruona, vs III. . arc v ,,..7'.°"s't'.°..;'§:.. a’ro outortaisod, that the donated law willhsrsgodbythoprosoat islatasa,_ - ' ' z tin

Tho potitir lstaro of V9 I,

_ lwilltry

.. Pumaniagocsrtaiolyio var gtoat ...onaodtbvJCIaIuuu,osgo, is

tfitWoI,whsisahasssssl.u.ar-

" °- ' 'u,audsao." "Ds"i'tfcol goaitorhnvigmdolillthatprunibsl

as power, had , unified to sumo oatstit

this society: and her |sdysliip's ' had closed ition which

I . . “ ha y the sod lbllows cl’ not being able to be earned iatooffsct, alto

IGIOI-‘DOUG fitted out by

p 10 ho’ fit N:tliorI:‘8oas. This proposal was declined

go the vessel tosny eompotont

vernmaat fcrths esp tias oft , and liar lltlylllai than who was

isisua and stores

. I aces ad the alas, ftho vessel. the wages of tho was to led

at . it be t M.Ptarnisn.buth ihosd- ;~°"... .3. "...z.'. ...'°:'..T.':'.‘.'."°”".........‘1....'.-..:.. ... ......’..-.,......

lion tstho Northern Sounds, at the head of Bnlfin'o Bay. hitherto

unexplored, and, indeed, y named so at a distance of 70 or 80 miles. Panic in his attempt to reach Smith's or .lonos's Bounds, he proposed visiting Baechey Island, the depot of Sir Edward Bol- r'a squadron. and making offer of his surplus stores in compli-

anoa with Lady l’r:inklin’s origlonl intention; and failing that again, horns ships along the western coast of BslIin's Bay and Labrador. Leav-

io make the much-desired at-.:nreh fur the crews oftlio barg-

ing Upernavick on the ltith of August, where he obtained dogs for sledges, should he need those ioc currittgoo, be pressed forward

with all speed In the direction of Cape York, tnliing 0lllOlVl||0lIl‘ whenever practicable. In sailing and steaming through that archi- pelago of islands, numbers of icebergs of vast dimensions wore en-

countered, which were ever and linen splitting with the roar ofa thousand cannon, and sending from their raoling baaao a swell that was sotuatlmes ' pl trance ol'_M_olvil a

there were counted the crow'o-nest I80

Adntii Beck as that on which Capt. Franklin and his crew had been mu

articles had no doubt haan lcfl..by her Majesty's sh: which had winterad near to this s found an ugly cairn upwards of sin high, and covered with lsuvy stonos. His desire to view the contents was much w

by the fact thitt on removing the

were found. Tho cairn was soon d

'l::llod to the bass

"'° tend Sci.

_ r..

rceptible at an incredible distance. At the on- Island] great quantit of drilling sosweod was seen. Passing the Crimson Clifi's, allu ad to by Sir John Ross. icebergs, many of them of gigantic proportions. ‘lie then proceeded to Cape Athol, and on thqpfllrd he paid_s visit to Ominnclt. the spot named by

rvlered, and on which ho said their houos would he found buried in a'esirn. He (Capt. l.) accordipgly landed, and closely examined roposn could_bs found, but

North Star, t, lla (tho gslsnt captain) roost, vary

5.

stonss a quantity of bones _ ,tiud the _carth out to a foot depth through the frozen soil, but great was his sa-

‘1mnszAnn°s cmznirmii.

TUESDAY. Encnmnnn 28'. less.

Till "Mm °“'.wnrd which loft hate on Thursday lust, 5'0 D0‘ 599". able to oroutbcfitrait, from the minor-

u I“? '9'“ 9‘ the weather. The River opposite Charlotte-

"! UV“ "’FAus closed, but the ice isuiimfe to travel on, even

‘'1’ 700'. puongors.

Bunrnic 'l‘u.mnu-n.—'l‘ho wires are now brought into the Town Hall, sad the line completed, but owing to some uti- foreoeen circumstance, no messages have yet been received frtnu Capo Traverse.

Sctarrmc Corcrntaurtoitu -rowannc '-run I¥l‘BOVll!.\"l' _oi- Aunicunrunu in Nova Sooris, in J. W. Dswses, Superin- ent of Education, Nova Scotia, Cor. Mom. Ac. bot. Phils., Plctnu, Published by J. Dswsoii do Son, 1853, p. 99. (Printed by . '1 6d., currency.) . _ V v " The Institutions of the Academy at Pietou, as well as that of King‘s College in Windsor, have been productive of the happiest cfi'et:ts in the neighbouring Province; while they have rodu men whose fume and reputation are not.con- Ined within the narrow boundaries of their own province,

ha and while such men as the writer of the work, the title of

which is prefixed to this article, have been enabled to be- come the instructors of their countrymen, hundreds ofotliors have derived from the some sources, the means of benefiting by those instructions, throu bout the whole Province of Nova Scotiu, there are to be foun numbers of well-educated men in every class of life, with the exccpti n, perhaps, of ‘the more labourer, who have derived their owledgo from one or other of these seminns-ies or from those of more recent

P~_ origin. Among those whose names have conferred honour

on the place of their education, stands Mr. J. W. swoon. A native of the town ofPictou, he was s. pupil of the late Rev. Dr. McCulloch-one of those literary pioneers. who having spent a life of hardship, toil and privution in tho s'ervice of learing, was removed just when the value of his services had been at last be it to appreciated. It was natural, that in the midst ol coal mines and iron sandstone, lime and other mineriilo ‘cal productions, the bent of ‘ Mr. Dawson's mind should inclined to the study of Geolo- gy and its kindred and con nial sciences. These were pur- sued with that urdour w ich is ever the concomitant o genius, and which, when under due regulation, never fail; to lead to success. Mr. Dawson achieved it reputation in his native Province, and obtained the important and highly responsible post of Superintont of Education. Of the Insu- ner in which he has performed the duties of his cilioe, we shall hereafter have occasion to speak. It would seem that while so cngn d, is attention was directed to the state of agriculture in Java. Seotia.,und bye mind like his--trsvelli into ever part of the Province—it could scarcely be overlook- ed, and once the resent work; but we will allow him to speak for himse . After some short prcfator remarks on the disadvantages under which the pursuit 0 Agricu turn has laboured in Nova. Scotiu. he nuys— “ Nova Sections have not been wholly insensible to these evils. In_ the earlier days of its a rieulture, our province could boast of one of the cblest mot crn writers on the sub- ject; uudjcvcn now after all the rapid prorvress of modern agri- cultural chemistry, every reuder of Agricola must be asto- nished ut his clear appreciation of grand facts and princi- ples scurely thou ht of in his day, even by the ublest che- mists nnd ugricu turists of Europe, Agricola has left his impress on our agriculture; but too fuintl . Ilad his re- commendations been faithfully and universal followed, our

I ti bonus _ and that there was nothing like those of any human being.

ntl sati jvol't.s.t°eqvI"eI' in’thc statement of that ropiobato Adam Beck, and that no such this as he had rolatad had befallon their missi countrymen. .5 the chorus of Whole Sound ho fouzd riotivus, who on seeing (ho crow indulged in immodersto laughter, and osprsmod the utmost astonishment at their clothing. They had ovidcntly never seen Europeans bcfovo, but t soon ocaine

p of them, the most singular of these was perhaps a vessel called a pot stone, which they used to melt their bluhher. These voaools were hollowed out of solid stones by means of a harder kind of stone, and the formation of one was a work requirin immense timo kihonr. Notivithstandin that he (the gs lent ollicer) loll England thrao months later than t e expedition of last year. he had succeeded in reaching a considerably higher lstitudo than had been ttaiucd by Ross and Perry in their voyage of ISIS, and he_ had oxplorod and laid down 000 miles of new coast lino, determining also that the entrance nito Whale Sound was a great strait mg in the Arctic basin, and thus apparently defining Grsonls as an ' At the antriitico _ _ ’ had rapidly surveyed, and laid down upon his chart. To the strait ho had iven tho natnu of Ilurchisun’s Straits -(shoots)--and the priacipa island he had called Northumhorlsnd I . Lonvi this sound, as it had hitherto been termed, he maiod Nonhwu , in tho direction of Smith Sound, and there found a grant ostent of on stretching for before him. On the 21th of Aug. at I p. m.. ho attained the lat. of 78 deg. 85 min. (nearly 120 miles farther notth than any former voyngers). e was then in It grout cos, the uitrsncc of which was 85 tniles serous, only partially on- cu cd with ice, and which, upon the eastern shore, seemed pexrcutl nsv' hie.‘ He had thus entered the grant Polsr Basin, and he lies that he would have pushed through in the direction of Iohriu Straits had iiota gale nrissu which fairly blew him out of it, s defied his utmost ofibrts; for the small high-pressure engine with which the lsshal was fitted, was only equal to pushing use vessel in calms or light winds. Allcr some hours of rent escr- xien, ho was provldeutially released from the ice w it: our- ' ndad him and tit

-84 aid found at this point that tho coast suddenly trcndod away to sh.’ eat. whilst the southern shore continued westerly as far goilbo oys could roach, but no land could be distinguished at the bottom of the sound, or could any trace of the missing expedition be -discovered. On the lat Sept. ho osilod from Jonas Sound with the igu1u'aq,al'.cotsimuuicating with the squadron of Sir Edward Belch- “, bu.» g Baeclioy Island on the 7th of Sept., and after lgttsr bags and focotvlng others in tours for Epgln -,

‘ gflvuflg. day with a view to commence ti more detailed ex- amination of the western _shores of 'Bafiln’s Bny than former navi-

{abio had hssnioblo to bestow on that coast. Again he was unsuc- ...|'.| ig, any. trscaa of the in‘ cg ospedltion on these 45¢‘, wliiehhsxplorsd as far south as the River Clyde, whore the ' (sad to tho laud,‘snd stretched tiosrltynacross Bsfliu Bay. _snd liiai.ovor to the eastern shore in noighosr _ iseo

whore he encountered a succession ofgsles, the most Vlollnl.‘ wiiaasssd, and which rendered the vast icoborgs that our-

oaastdoubly dsu erouo. After several lraitloss ofiirts

' rland In at (where tho commander intended

' of tho ica-uisstasn,

g.» u is a

VI“ ho at tl srnost representations

u )ra|" sttsmpt,und burn up for ad on tho

ug,p.y|;3__.uiyiag at fatorhesd exactly four months frcui_tlio

4., |...‘i| cgptani Iaglcfiold than mods some observations upon the search for tho missing vessels, and gave it as his epic

‘that the Government uiaa was undoubtedly on the right .“gy.;|,.§.'ipg~ti'q phic discovsries,.snd taking into ac-

. htclt he I" ' f tho lvwu d n..a..e.‘L"i... '-"'..a""'.' ,u°-'i2ia.'.'-“3‘.-iI?'e1'-ea-'-5'-‘lo: -3: A ears that ho had diatom “It

E

“l » "5, gm . sound was

dd Id: ssdc_thoralt'1:‘statiouutu ' all isdoostl ::Hehhsbrisly , .

has still! 1' of -tho

bslievo ht Baflufli

ii‘

'%é!5§§i* . iii?

'2

action at finding, upon the authority of their liuttlrolisls, that the those ofthe whale, the walrus, and ofditfereni" fishes;

Ia was d all doubt that there was no truth a number of

friendly, and litany of the small articles that lay on the table were arch

of this straight he had discovered a cluster

' altogether in the fall.

km, most altogether in tho

. xhibited in trash on the afternoon J is»! Lorgeomu.

province would now have been twice as popu ous and thrice its wealthy us at present. In later times, our Boards of Agriculture und the Secretaries and local agricultural so- cieties have laboured, though it must be confessed in it some- what desultory manner, in the same great cause; and A ri- cultural periodicals and modern scientific books have been widely diffused, read and profitably applied. More recently still, the legislature has recognised a iculturul chemistry as one of the branches of it higher so 1 education; and die Superintendent of education has endeavoured, by distribution of books and apparatus, and the delivery of lectures to teachers, to bring this valuable branch of rue ticnl education within the reach of all the children 0 the province.

“Out of these last efforts the present population has grown. It embraces the results of en uiries and observations made during an educational tour 0 two years, much mutter col- lected by previous inquiries, and such portions of the ‘mirable report of Professor Johnston on New Brunswick, us seemed 0

especially adapted to the circumstances of ' It is scarcely necessary to say, tint it makes no pretensions to be it complete treatise on scientific agricul- . Nor does it profess to give the former any detailed information on the practical o rations of his art. It is simply is collection of facts on seqggestions, based on sound scientific instruction, and intend tocontributeto the elli- cient teaching of a ieulturslsoience in the schools, and to aid those who are diisirous of applying its truths to ‘the £0- culiur circumstances of our province, and the prevailing e-' fects nnd dilieulties of its agriculture." _ The Remarks on Climate are peculiarly worth reading bhynthe Prince Edward Island former. The great complaint t t he is for ever making is the extreme length of the win- ters. Professor Johnston has however shown, that the dif- ference between the Western part of the Suite of New York and the Province of New Brunswick does not consist of more than 10 or 15 work working days and those almost “ The farmers in these countries, New York and Canada, appear to have us much reason to complain of short springs, as we have.” “ 1. There may be a deficiency of time for farm-work. Professor Johnston on enquiring into this subject in relation to New Brunswick, finds that the average time of latest ploughing is the 17th November, and the average time of curlicst sowing, the 21st April. He infers from this, that the average duration of summer, is six months and twenty- t -two days. He then hikes three months and 17 days as‘ o uvcra time required for the growth of spring grain, and colon too, that the time for a ring and autumn work, before sowing and after reapin , it three months and three s. These numbers -are equsfily applicable to Nova Sootia, tn ing the average tw the earliest districts in the western counties and the latest parts of the east hills. On com ring these dates with those for western New York, Pro essor Johnston finds, ‘ let, that the winter in western New York, is E days shorter than that in New Brunswick ; 2d, that this shortness consists in the addition of 21 days to the open weather of fall, and one day to the open weather of s rin .” To counterbalance this udvnnmge, he finds that the 'cw York fiirmer has a somewhat larger number

5 3

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'°' of rain days, which reduce his extra time in full to be-

tween 0 and 15 days. These facts would induce us to con- clude, that the advanta in regtrd to open weather in New York and Upper Cans as compared with Nova Scotio, does not exceed 20 work’ days in the your, and this al-

(Tb be lelontlnurd.) “Z _ Cnsnims-srovnc, Dec. 27, 1852. 1.. D. Hasssns, Fso., Sui; ' W°Il I ‘t me, through the medium of rye l,to iuiryeollr duty it is to protsot the lnhbiy::tI pllpeioh and odioru frosn such disgraceful cotiduotas w _ ...,. ...,.i -:..°-ii.-.2-......'*-I o woro can at oi‘sevI'sloftes?reets,who llsd onspaaslng ,in sonic casotiiot without lnjii . Surely, , ‘now that is sP5d'?.ste sluiostnt every turn, and now thatwe are- bnusi vi Iuoaer dfloveriiruent, such this will be no longer tolerated, 40a New Year's day we sis ospsot,as usual, orepetitiou of tho rt. " ' '

t ls.tho " ' res Ilflprssssushdlssrdsr _ , of Inscntlvo, to sea tho spacial ccnshblss detholr duty. But wlielstooumpsl the itxoeutlvetodo its outyl)-b. il.'s On.

G ‘. llasznn, Charlottetown,-‘price -

"G Hlivy came to hiind. Its publication will serve usun answer to much of the misrepresentation Contained in the leading article of that

“ I{oi.in.tr . Rlrlis mi

merits. bly Chamber last summer, the poet thus specks :— “ The Dinner o'er, the crumbs were cleared, When locus and sewlirnsltlr ' ‘ The Queen!’ of course-—nome so endear'd ‘on To all the nation- So as kers ke, ud wsschaer m PM P0 ‘ swith approbdtion. “ After the Queen, ‘ IIere's Captain Sleigh, Our honcr'd guest, from or .- \\'ith right good will we il this day _ is bright appearing. Long, long amongst us may he stay ! _ (Tremendous cheering.)

“ IIo gave res use, in happy style, With easiest w and blandest smile, l’ruis'd his ‘ broad acres’ in this Islo— . Replete with beauties; And prcoch’d a homily, meanwhile, _ On landlords‘ duties!"

It is to be sold, we are informed, at Mr. Bs.xitxxs’s.

the Christmas Holidays, some information onthe subject o

that the Island is as highly taxed in 852 as in 184‘).

ad 'tional in l852:—

Blocks and Dead Eyes,

Jewellery,

Clothes, ready made,

Wrecked Vessels, whether _or broken up,

ider , Fish ( ickled) ,

rut cxirrrir. udvulorem, £2 10 0 it 10 10

ts

got oil‘, 66

additional, per gallon, per.bb| . ,

( ry), r uintul, Add to these, the additional 6d.

6690! t-[Q99 O3 GGu5° O9

P9 on um.

The editor of the Royal Gazelle will be careful to remark that in 1849 Invoices in Sterling were reduced into Currency

b adding l-9th, =- £111 2s. %,---on which 6 per cent. was

c urged, making £6 13s. 4d. currency on the £100 sterling

f In 1852, £100 sterling is £150 out-rency—on which 5 per

cent. is charged, making £7 l0s. currency on £100 sterling difiorence in favor of 1852, 16s. 8d. on the £100 sterling £l00 P. E. Island currency, and charged, ut6 r cent., £6 In 1852, £100 Ilulifnx currenc currency—clmrge, nt 5 per cent., 3.

The above was written before the Royal Gazette of yester We do not choose to make any ultcru

num GI’

by the Proprietors to of its arrangements to any other. Nothin convenience and money could effect, has

card is in another part of our paper.

ST. PAUL'S lNFAN'I.'_ ANDLSUNDAY SCHOOLS.

usual treat to the children was given on the evening got‘ the some day.

On Thursday. the Scholars of St. Paul's Sundsv School, amounting to ‘£40 children, met at the Temperance all, and by.the kind attention of their Teachers and friends, were regs- lsd with 'l‘es and Cake. Sir.A.loxsndcr Bhnnerman and Lady

ral songs were sung by Mr.Hubhsrd’a volunteer choir, and the Temperance Band gave their rstuitous nttcndanco,snd played with their usual skill eevers popular sirs.—Tbc collection for the Clothing fund nmoitntcd to £6 0 6.

This is the Tenth Anniversary of the Infant and Sunday Schools, and we were plsd to vc no diminution of the in- Ioreat and good will ofthe public, towards these two Institu- tions. No one indeed that considers the subject, can regard with indifference the Educational institutions of our town or ootintry—anolhcr ten years will see the larger number ofthe,-so children grown to manhood and exercising their rights as citi- zens: and insignificant as our lslsnd may be in the scale of us- tions, its future is all important to us; an that future can only be lis py and prosperous, in pro rlion to .the capability of its poop e for self-government. V e are not of those who think that weshh or much knowledge should be a qualification for the electoral franchise — but we do think, than some adtiestion, and good moral principle, are absolutely necessary for,both_electors and elected. in order to ensure the proper working ofthe Bi-itishConstitutton.—On this account, we can- uot but regard it as a duty in ‘the Legislature to foster such ‘institutions with a becoming ltbcrslrty,snd we hope that in the next Session of tho Parliament, some stepswill be rake" 1,, prevent any unfavorable effects flowing to this Institution from the operation of the new free Education Act.

Roux Csrnouc SCll0Ol.S.—-‘V0. attended for a short time on Ttiesda last the annual examination of the above schools, in connection with St. Msliiclii's Church. The Boys’ School is under the management of Mr. Eonusn Rociir, who was for some years a teacher under the National System in Ireland; and who, while conductin one of the District Schools in th interior of this Island, elicited the unqualified itpprobution of the School Visitor, for the success which attended his labours In importing instruction. The School over which he at present presides, js largely pr_ofiting_b hisexperience and knowledge, and is likely to attain consi arable importance. The Girls‘ School has been wisely and profitably entrusted to the care and direction of the Misses CATIIIIINI and Man- osnrr M‘Dos'.u.n, whose capacitynfor the dlflcult and delicate task of formic the minds and bits of the youth of their .own sex was we 1 shown in the lp

upils in some even of the . igher and more branches of knowledge. Specimens of writin were exhibit- ed, which would do credit to any lady of the and ; and the readiness and ease with which answers were given to dificult questions in Geogru by and History, elicited the admiration of the visitors, an showed how carefully and correctly instruction had been imbibed. . In Reading and Arithmetic, considerable progress has been made; and, altogether, the sc presented the strongest claims to the fostering core and encouragement of the Catholic coinmunlty.——Royal